"In 2007, journalist James Bamford recalled how Americans had been subjected to 'a long line of hyped and fraudulent stories that would eventually propel the U.S. into a war with Iraq—the first war based almost entirely on a covert propaganda campaign targeting the media.' The dirty war

The lies of the mass media machine are getting more desperate and conspicuous, whether it's talking about Jeremy Corbyn or Syria or North Korea. People are waking up to it, which opens up new possibilities.https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/ep-74-happy-new-universe-day

For months leftist analysts have been warning that the increasingly hysterical anti-Russia narratives being aggressively promoted by the western media would eventually be used to target the political left. Those warnings went largely unheeded in the United States where the Russiagate narrative was being ostensibly

Well I’ll be damned. There's a lot of cool stuff happening all of a sudden.
After loudly denying rigging their primaries for two years, the leaders of the Democratic Party are now openly admitting to deliberately stacking primary elections to ensure the win of preselected establishment

The Intercept has published a secretly taped audio recording of one of the most powerful Democrats in America pressuring a progressive candidate to drop out of a Colorado congressional primary race. It hasn't been getting as much attention as the WikiLeaks drops on the DNC's

The sanest position anyone can ever take is the one that demands proof and is skeptical of known liars. When that issue is Syria, in a post-Iraq world, that burden of proof is enormous. Don't let them gaslight you into thinking otherwise.[embed]https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/ep-73-never-let-anyone-call-you-crazy-for-doubting-establishment-war-narratives[/embed]

There has still been no retraction or correction of The Guardian's demonstrably false and completely indefensible claim that two normal antiwar Twitter accounts were controlled not by real people but by bot programs based in Russia.This is the sort of environment that has been created

On the 19th of April, The Guardian published an article making the positive assertion that two Twitter accounts were run not by real people, but by automated bot software based in Russia. Since the article was published, the owners of both accounts have stepped forward,

Propaganda and censorship only work if they’re invisible. Once it's obvious that propagandists are propagandizing, public attention moves from the material being presented to the people doing the presenting. This is happening right now but they can't stop.[embed]https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/ep-72-msm-is-frantically-attacking-dissenting-syria-narratives-and-it-looks-really-bad[/embed]

I write a lot about how, in a political environment that is saturated in disinformation and propaganda, it's important to ignore people's words and watch their actions instead to get a clear picture of what's really happening. You could not ask for a better illustration